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“To-morrow, brother, you shall know why I left the shores of the Baltic to go beyond the Ural Mountains.”
“I ask you nothing, sister.”
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Michael Strogoff thus could learn nothing here; but if mouths were often shut at his approach — for they did not know him — his ears were soon struck by the sound of one voice, which cared little whether it was heard or not.
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“Really, I didn’t expect to be so closely followed.”
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